Even if there are no children, please do not harass JWs - they are cult victims, and doing so will only enforce their ‘us vs them’ mentality, and discourages members from leaving. They often have children with them - not only because it’s often families going preaching together, but also because it’s a well known tactic to get a softer response from people they call on, to have a child with you. They do it anyways because they think they’re helping you. Now, you don’t want them at your door, probably. DO NOT give them any personal information. The areas to fill this in on these cards are rather small so they usually only write down the most important information, but it is the most important information for trying to indoctrinate you into a cult. On that note: JWs collect data on you! A lot of it!! Those territory cards they fill out? They can include any information they gleaned from conversation (age? gender? personal details like if you’re married, if you live with your parents, etc? what religion do you belong to? any problems in your life they can ‘help’ with? any ‘problematic’ details, like if you’re queer? all of it.) if someone was home or not (yes we can see you peeking out from behind your curtains! we looked in windows!) if the person answering the door was uninterested if they were aggressive if they have dogs if we were able to leave any publications with them the details of any conversations we had, like which topics we discussed and which seemed to interest you the most when to call on you again.They often pull addresses from the phone book or other such directory, pulling based on name, or get referred new addresses from neighborhood sweeps in other congregations and were told x language was being spoken, so if you get called on by someone speaking your language and wonder how they got your address, it’s because they’ve collected data already! On You! These are on ‘territory cards’, which include areas to fill out once they’ve called on houses. JWs are given ‘territories’: entire neighborhoods if they’re a majority language and can generally bet on most of the people in a given area speaking that language SPECIFIC ADDRESSES if they belong to a smaller language demographic.Evening witnessing is encouraged, to catch parts of the service area who didn’t answer during morning service, like people who were at work or asleep. Generally it’ll be in the mornings (anywhere between 9AM to 1PM being common, my family did 10AM to noon Saturdays), but any time of day is also fair game. JWs do service work mostly on Saturdays and Sundays, but any day of the week is fair game, just less of them will be out on other days.So, to get you folks in on the Secret Inner-workings of a Cult:
They stopped for the past few years due to…well. JW congregations have just been told to start doing door-to-door preaching (aka ‘service’/‘service work’/‘witnessing’) again this September. Uh oh! A Jehovah’s Witness is at my door!Ī guide on what the fuck is happening and what to do about it as a never JW, from an exJW.
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